Many
powerful men and women who were in elevated and highly visible positions of
leadership politically, spiritually and in the sport and entertainment fields
in 2015 were uncovered as frauds and vile abusers during the past year of what
appeared to be a virulent year of repeated and embarrassing exposures.

The Lord is
again FIRMLY warning many out in these arenas, large and small, that there is
still an opportunity for you to redeem the time. The falsifying of your claimed
insights from God to manipulate financial support, fame, notoriety and honor
for good deeds will no longer be tolerated and will in fact be double-stamped
with the seal of “deceiver and thief” if the appeals for connived support are
not stopped. God is not behind what you have demanded in His Name.

Some in
ministry and Non-profit organizations have satisfied themselves upon the offerings
of widows and those who foolishly gave on impulse, due to your slick emotional
pleas and contrived media images and heart-tugging background musical
interludes. They have robbed and stolen from others whom God has anointed and
blessed in smaller settings and their cries for help and assistance have not
gone unheard from the Heart of heaven.

SUSTAIN AND BE A FOUNDATION FOR THE
SMALL BUT FRESH WELLS.

The Holy
Spirit would have the body of Christ soberly hear the following words.

"There will be a fresh wave of
conviction to "Sustain and Strengthen the Foundations of those who have
been Fresh and Pure wells to drink from and connect with" and there will
be a trending back towards smaller, steady and steadfast ministries and
servants who have faithfully plowed and served in seasons of loss, lack, and
persecution. Don’t withhold!

You must not muzzle the servants
who have been plowing, and you will be judged for feigned ignorance towards
their needs and my conviction to “send them out” to do My work.

To those who feel as if they are
“more graced or more anointed” and who think that they have a "special and
more unique” calling that needs a preeminent opportunity to instruct and be
seen, beware of the pride of life, the lust for power and the wares of selfish
ambition.

Do nothing
out of selfish ambition or vain conceit.

Rather, in
humility, value others above yourselves.

-Philippians
2:3

You will be found upon the trash
heap of loss and sorrow if you grasp and hold tightly to what was never really
yours to begin with. It is mine.

If you cannot accept the terms of
what I request, you will be known as a divider, weak, egotistical and immature.

Again, I will not bless your
intentions or your ambitions. You rob the Body of authentic Kingdom service by
remaining secretive, self-promoting and destructive to My purposes.

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of
wisdom...

-Proverbs 9:10

WHEN THE SOUL GOES
THROUGH HUMBLING EXPERIENCES

We all know that there
are times when the soul goes through humbling experiences. Perhaps in the past you
had strength, calm, security and confidence, and then all of that suddenly gets
stripped and your soul sees itself and it's true state of desperate need. If you are alert you will
recognize that the Lord is opening our eyes to secret pride in 2016. That
internal thinking that all of our achievement is of our own doing and not
purely a gift from above.

Yes, these times come so
it will never occur to us again that we are stronger in spirit than anyone
else! If we look up on any other person as weaker, it is only because we have
not been taken through the purging fire of God completely. Perhaps this is
what's happening to someone we know, and it's no business of ours to preen our
feathers of “goodness” while they are being refined and challenged. On the other
side of that coin, God wants for us to have an open and humble spirit, realizing
that if we were in their position we may not handle the circumstances as well,
and might do worse.

IN 2016 THIS HUMBLING
PROCESS IS IN GOD’S HANDS

It is his way of raising
in your heart a new love for all of mankind. In the past you may have judged
others either for their pride, or for being in personal difficulties.

Even worse, you may have
seen others who are lukewarm or weak in their faith and compared it with your
own strong devotion and enthusiasm for God.

God is merciful and he
shows us all of our own places of emptiness. Allowing us to go through humbling
experiences is how He knocks this out of the seat of our own “judgment” which
is His seat alone!

He wants us to keep our
eyes on our own response to what we know He wants us to do so that we remain in
a place of simple obedience to Him.

WE ARE ON A HUMBLE
SPIRITUAL ROAD IN 2016

David stood in the
presence of wicked men (Samuel chapter 16:5-6 and 9-10) and there he was
wondering why the Lord put up with their evil behavior while he was going
through such anguish in his own life! But he still prayed and said “I will watch my ways so I may not sin with
my tongue. I will keep my mouth shut as if it were tied with ropes, while the
sinful are near me.” –Psalm 39:1

When David finally
saw how limited and small that his own viewpoint was, he continued to say, “ I remained silent and I wasn't about to
open my mouth because you Lord are the one who allowed this!”

This is a humble
condition much like David's that the Lord will bring our souls to as we are on a
humble spiritual road in 2016.He says to you and I that He longs to help
you to be submitted to His hand alone, obedient to His voice alone! We are not
to resist Him!

We are not really serving
Him and our brothers and sisters if we've taken the high seat above them. When
the Lord begins to work this way of tenderness in our hearts we must listen to
what He says no matter what or WHOM He allows to bring the message through. In
the past, arrogance has been the measuring stick where many would only receive
teaching and correction from someone THEY thought was worthy to DARE speak to them!
Those days are over.

"If you have jealousy in your heart

and fight to have many things,

do not be proud of it.

Do not lie against the
truth."

James 3:14

IN 2016 WE MUST HAVE EARS
THAT ARE OPEN TO HIS VOICE ALONE

We can enjoy the extreme value
of knowing that we must be under the direction of our matchless Lord.

Remember that He may use
anyone at all, however unpleasing to the eye, unintelligent or not so affluent!
When you see they may be able to teach you and direct you on your way, it is
because of the attraction and Divine beauty they have in their lives from honoring
the Lord. It’s that they are truly humble, not simply by saying it - but by
literally BEING humble.

HEEDING ANOTHER VOICE OF PROMISE
AND PROMOTION

The Lord has
impressed me to share that some have heeded another voice, one who would put
them up, on the pinnacle of the world and promise them all power and wealth if
they but just bow down. The Lord wants you to know, (although I tremble at even
delivering this), that many have already bent one knee downward to hopefully
obtain a bit of blessing from “both sides.”

Get up and
RUN from deception and self-indulgence, blatant lying and entitlement!

You can be
sure that using people or spiritual metaphors or “things” just for what you can
get out of them—the typical indicators of idolatry—will get you nowhere, and
certainly nowhere near the Kingdom of Christ.

You have
been taken in and spoiled by religious smooth talk! The Lord is furious with
people who are full of religious sales talk but who really want nothing to do
with Him. You have groped your way through that murk once, but no longer.
You're out in the open now. The bright light of Christ makes your way plain.

GOD MOVES AMONG THE OUTCASTS

“Has not my
hand made all these things, and so they came into being?”

declares the LORD.
These are the ones I look on with favor:

Those who
are humble and contrite in spirit, and who tremble at my word.”

-Isaiah
66:2

You've
probably never been stuck on a deserted island, but you may know pretty well
how it feels. In a world of bad relationships and superficial relationships and
broken relationships, a lot of people know the feeling of being emotionally cast
aside, abandoned, and maybe even discarded. Because of some of what you've been
through, you may feel like you're the outcast.

Your days
on that island may be almost over. In fact, it could be that all your failed or
frustrating relationships have actually been preparing you to experience the
central relationships you were being equipped and prepared for.

Anyone who
has ever felt like an emotional outcast needs to hear the fabulous promise of
Jesus Christ in this word for 2016 from
the Word of God.

Jesus says to all those who belong to Him,

"I will not leave you as orphans. I WILL come to
you.”

-John 14:18

This is the same Savior, who says,

"Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.”
Hebrews. 13:5

He's the One, who promised,

"The one that comes to me, I will certainly not
cast out."

John 6:37

And from
now on, that promise of Jesus can be all about you,

"The
one that comes to me I will certainly not cast out."

THE LORD WOULD SAY THESE WORDS TO
YOU AND I IN 2016

“You now understand the pain of betrayal, losses so
great that you can no longer talk about them. You have ached in such agonizing
despair that at times you have begged me to let you die. Friends have turned
and chosen to see you through blinded eyes of their own making and have refused
to help you to find your footing again, thinking they are doing you a service
by letting you grovel and weep in painful loss and sorrow. They have competed
for gain to their own egos and have self promoted at the expense of exchanging
deeper relationships for ego stroking.

You have been reduced in the past season to identifying
with those who were forced to make bricks for Pharaoh without straw.

I too was a man of sorrows and endured the shame in
order to be formed, shaped and made ready for the moment of redemption.

And so shall it be with you. Redemption from the losses
will come to those who choose obedience over pleasure, serving others over
being the served one, and letting go of the dreams of greatness you cling too,
no longer using my name or gifts as a calling card.

I have caused you to cease from striving, from
worrying, and from being anxious.

You now rest up again my chest,
waiting, trusting, wanting only ME. You have become kinder, a better listener,
a more trusted confidant.

I can work well with those
attributes.

Just Watch Me in this Year.

I WILL Open the Way of Hope and
shine Light on the pathway for those who have ceased from manipulating the
moment.”

SEARED OR FERVENT IN 2016?

“The Spirit
clearly says that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow
deceiving spirits and things taught by demons.

"Such teachings come through hypocritical liars,

Whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron.”

~ 1 Timothy
4

To have a
seared or calloused conscience means to cause something to wither. To make
(someone's conscience, heart, or feelings) insensitive.

Without the
willingness of heart to fall upon the rock of God’s word, allowing every
strength and support of ours to be fully broken, the wicked heart of mankind
will continue to allow the searing patterns of indifference and insensitivity
to affect their choices and will permeate more and more of the moral and sacred
places of society.

I have been
impressed to warn believers that the increase of sexual lures and smutty
language has begun to pay a toll much larger than they realize.

MATURE AND SOLEMN IN 2016

Huge
numbers of people are being brought to ruin because they are not thinking;
thoughtlessly causing hurt or inconvenience to others is the devastation of
thousands, and many a precious soul has been shattered through carelessness.

The Lord is
asking you and I to "consider our ways," and return to a walk with The Still Small Voice and begin a
familiarity with him yet again. With conviction, it would be the most rewarding
relationship you could fall into!

"But since
we belong to the day, let us be sober."

-1
Thessalonians 5:8

PRAYER AND THANKFULNESS IN 2016

“Devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful
and thankful.”

-Colossians
4:2

As I finish this word and insights for the year,

I will
share the last whispers the Lord spoke clearly to me.

“Each day, upon waking, where does
your heart and mind wander to?

Is it the plans and lists of things
you must accomplish for the day?

Is it the meal you are about to
eat?

Is it worry and the bracing
yourself for another grinding day of dealing with the pressures of life?

Return to those early awakening
moments where you and I share in the dialog of My plans for you.

Each day you have to live and to
give you have been given the opportunity to impact someone and to do a kindness
or act of training for another.

Where has your thankful heart
wandered? Without it, behaviors and moods of bitterness and drudgery will
manifest and sour even the brightest flower of hope.

Return to the heart of the issue
and clean away the rusty decay of grindstone thinking. Each day can be a fresh
adventure into Kingdom purposes or, a continual repeating of a dreary
existence.